Cultures of MGP, TMC don’t match, says Goa CM Pramod Sawant

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said that the cultures of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) and the Trinamool Congress, which have formed a pre-poll alliance, do not match. Goa’s oldest regional party MGP on Monday announced that it will contest the upcoming state assembly elections in alliance with the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) as the alliance advocates good governance as its main election issue for the ruling party. Had it. BJP.

Reacting to the political development, CM Sawant said that both the parties are no match when it comes to cultural identity. Where is MGP’s culture and TMC’s West Bengal culture? We wonder how they match up, he told reporters after attending the BJP’s election management committee meeting chaired by former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis on Monday evening. Referring to Goa’s first CM Dayanand Bandodkar, who founded MGP, Sawant said, “There will be no peace wherever the late Bhausaheb (Dayanand) Bandodkar will be found.” It is shown there that when a lion can’t find anything to eat, it eats grass. Notably, the lion is the election symbol of the MGP. After the 2017 assembly elections, the BJP won only 13 seats in the 40-member house, compared to the 17 seats held by the Congress, along with the MGP and another regional outfit, the Goa Forward Party (GFP), to form its government. aligned.

MGP and GFP later parted ways with the saffron outfit. The MGP, which had won three seats in the 2017 elections, currently has only one MLA left after two of its MLAs joined the ruling BJP.

Tanwade said that when the MGP forged an alliance with the BJP for the first time in 1994, it was a completely different party. He said that if it is the same party, it would not have entered into an alliance with a political outfit like TMC. Tanwade claimed that now MGP has become a private limited company of the Dhavalikar brothers.

The MGP is headed by Deepak Dhavalikar and his brother Sudin Dhavalikar represents the party in the state assembly. Deepak Dhavalikar on Monday said the details of MGP’s alliance with TMC will be announced later and added that both the parties will share seats for the elections to the 40-member assembly.

He claimed that there is a “wave” against the BJP in Goa and both the parties will try to take advantage of it in the elections to be held in early 2022. TMC MP and Goa desk in-charge Mahua Moitra gave the details. The alliance will be made public ahead of Mamata Banerjee’s scheduled visit to the coastal state on December 13.

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